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It's like a social-engineering attack on an LLMs. If you talk like the role you want to be, the LLM will assume you are that role, and not pay attention to the fact that you lack formal credentials.

Of course, it turns out that "formal credentials" don't really exist anyway - the ones being fooled were the humans who assumed that <think> must be a meaningful tag to the LLM.